The Preobrazhensky Papers, Volume 2

Chronicling Continuity and Change

Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

470 Seiten

2023
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-64259-993-0 (ISBN)

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Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky was Russia’s foremost economist in the 1920s. This volume editorially reconstructs his theory of socialist industrialisation in an agrarian country and relates it to previous socialist theories and to issues of political struggle, culture and communist morality. The editors create a unique portrait of Preobrazhensky as an economist and social theorist, assess the viability of NEP as a model of economic growth, and identify the fault lines that contributed to the split in the Trotskyist Opposition and its defeat in the struggle against Stalin.

The bulk of the work included in this volume consists of the important An Attempt to Provide a Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy, while the material in Volume III focuses on concrete analysis.

Richard B. Day, Ph.D. (1970), University of London, is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published extensively on Soviet economic and political history, including Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation (Cambridge, 1973); a translation of Preobrazhensky’s The Decline of Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe, 1985); and Volume I of The Preobrazhensky Papers (Brill, 2014) with Mikhail M. Gorinov. Mikhail Gorinov, Ph.D., is an historian of political struggles within the Russian Communist Party during the 1920s. He is co-editor of Preobrazhensky’s works in Russian and has published several works on Preobrazhensky’s political life, co-edited The History of Russia: The Twentieth Century (Heron Press, 1996), and contributed to The People’s War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union (University of Illinois Press, 2000). Sergei Tsakunov, Ph.D., is an economist specialising in Russian economic theory during the 1920s. He is co-editor of Preobrazhensky’s works in Russian and author of In the Labyrinth of Doctrine (Rossiya Molodaya, 1994). He has published chapters on NEP in several Russian journals and books, including Volume 1 of Soviet Society (Rosiiskii gos. gumanitarnyi universitet, 1997), and History of the Motherland (Politizdat Moskva, 1991).

Preface

Abbreviations

Foreword to the First Edition

Part 1 [Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism]

Introduction to Part 1: Socialist and Communist Conceptions of Socialism

[1] The Great Utopians

1 Saint-Simon

2 Fourier

3 Étienne Cabet

4 Robert Owen

[2] The Communists

1 August Blanqui

2 The Parisian Dictatorship

3 Marx and Engels

[3] French Syndicalism

1 Against the State

2 Against Parliamentarism

3 The Way beyond Capitalism. The General Strike

4 Preparing for a New Society within the Old One

5 The Period of Transition to Communism

6 The Future Society

7 Anti-imperialism and Anti-militarism

8 Syndicalism, Revisionism and Marxism

9 The Syndicalists and Bolshevism

Part 2 [Foundations of a Theory of the Soviet Economy]

4 On the Method of Theoretical Analysis of the Soviet Economy

1 The Marxist Method of Political Economy

2 Political Economy and Social Technology

3 The Method of Studying the Commodity-Socialist System of Economy

5 The Law of Primitive Socialist Accumulation

1 Primitive Capitalist and Primitive Socialist Accumulation

2 The Struggle between Two Laws

6 The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy

1 General Observations

2 The Law of Value and Monopoly Capitalism

3 The Law of Value with Socialisation of Industry in a Peasant Country

4 The Commodity, the Market and Prices

5 Surplus Value, Surplus Product, and Wages

6 The Category of Profit in the State Economy

7 The Category of Rent

8 Interest and the Credit System

9 Cooperation

Appendix 1: Foreword to the Second Edition

Appendix 2: Once Again on Socialist Accumulation

Appendix 3: Reply to Comrades Karev and Kapitonov

Appendix 4: Debate on the Report of Comrade Preobrazhensky on ‘The Law of Value in the Soviet Economy’

Appendix 5: Economic Notes. On the Benefits of a Theoretical Study of the Soviet Economy

Appendix 6: Declaration of E.A. Preobrazhensky to the Presidium of the XV Conference of the All-Union Communist Party(B)

Biographical Index

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2023
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism
Übersetzer	Richard B. Day
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-64259-993-X / 164259993X
ISBN-13	978-1-64259-993-0 / 9781642599930
Zustand	Neuware